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The sixth issue of Volume 16 of The International Journal of Learning has now been published.

Volume 16, Number 6 contains:

• A Preliminary Analysis of Learning Processes for Innovation in Member-Serving Nonprofit Organizations: The Role of Governance Structure and its Elements – Shared Knowledge, Decision Making and Benefit Sharing by Eric Kong, Stacey Jenkins and David Ardagh
• Improving Retention and Performance among College Freshman Using Metacognitive Training: The Metacognitive Expertise Assessment Tool by Katherine Pang.
• Post Graduate Students’ Perceptions of an Exemplary Teacher by Samuel Ouma Oyoo and Paul Omedi Bwoga.
• Integrating Gender in Tertiary Education Curricula by Claudette Collette Austin.
• Postcolonial Learning in Neocolonial Times by Cathryn Teasley.
• Identity: Is Theatre an Asset in Dealing with Hard-to-Reach Youth? by Brenda Elizabeth Munro, Jan Selman, Shaniff Esmail and Jane Heather.
• Teacherhood Perspectives among Beginning Teachers: Class Teachers in the Science Classroom by Sivbritt Dumbrajs and Tuula Keinonen.
• What Does Good Visual Art Teaching Look Like in a Malaysian Higher Education Setting? by Md. Nasir Ibrahim and Syed Osman Syed Yusoff.
• Improving Students’ Media Literacy: Evaluating “Do Run Do Learn” by Junghwa Yoo, Kyungmee Lee and Yeongmahn You.
• The Relation between a Viewer and the Fictional Character in Light of his Activity, Reflection and Experiential Learning by Jana Kratka.

• Intervention Program for Early Readers: The Teething Problems by Rahil Mahyuddin, Sharifah Md Nor, Samsilah Roslan and Habibah Elias.
• Learning Electricity through STS-Learning Environment by Sari Havu-Nuutinen and Tuula Keinonen.
• The Key Motivational Factors of Innovation and Creativity of Student Learning in Junior Colleges in Taiwan by Jen-Chia Chang and Yu-Mei Yeh.
• Role of Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing in Secondary School Students’ General Learning by Chiu-Ching Chen and Ching-Yuan Chang.
• Study of the Impact on Mashhad Industrial Girls School Climate of Teaching Philosophy to Principals by Tahereh Javidi. K. J and Rosita Abootorabi.
• Resource Management Skills of High School Principals in Rural Communities by Prakash Singh and Daphne Gumbi.
• Quasi-experimental Classroom Research in Young Children’s Cognition by Christine Bottrell.
• Reading Comprehension in Two Cultures by Alastair Sharp.
• Adolescent’s Insights on the Academic Reading Practices in High School: A Case Study with a School Clique by Cristina Aliagas Marin.
• Cyberculture: A New Reference Frame for Learning by Constantin Cucos and Ciprian Ceobanu.
• Science Content Knowledge Gained through the Use of Slowmation by David Macdonald and Garry Hoban.
• On Democracy and Critical Citizenship by Arturo Rodriguez.
• Changing the Grading Paradigm: Applying Assessment Techniques to Enhance Student Engagement by Sheryl Van Horne.
• Affordances of Learning with Web Search Engines: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students in Hong Kong by Annie Yan-ni Cheng.
• Learning Electromagnetism through the MATHEMA by Alexandros Papadimitriou, Maria Grigoriadou and Georgios Gyftodimos.
• The Communication Choices of Russian-Speaking Students as Factors that Influence their Acculturation: The Case of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy by Aurika Komsaare.
• Effects of Father’s Education on their Emotional Relationship with Children by Fattah Nazem, Nooshin Jazayeri Naseri, Mehdi Memarpour and Seyed Ali Mohammadi.
• What Is the Greenhouse Effect? Fifth Graders’ Ideas by Sirpa Kärkkäinen, Tuula Keinonen, Jari Kukkonen, Antti Hurri and Päivi Vesala.
• Enhancing Professional Learning for the Improvement of Practice of Inservice Teacher Educators: Professional Learning for Inservice Teacher Educators by Margaret Lamont.
• Learning and Cognitive Styles as Effective Factors in Learning English for EFL Students by Alireza Homayouni, Parvin Kadivar and Hassan Taghypour Karan.
• From Research on Local Materials to the Learning of Science: An Inquiry-based Laboratory for Undergraduates by Namkang Sriwattanarothai, Piyachat Jittam, Pintip Ruenwongsa and Bhinyo Panijpan.
• Anthropology of Points: Towards the Pedagogy of Human Space by Aleksandra Kunce.
• Working Both Ways: Creative Lessons for Design Professionals by Jane Lawrence and Joanne Cys.
• New Information Literacies: Helping University Students Critically Evaluate Information Online by Susan Luckman.
• The Examination of Elementary Teachers’ Effectiveness on Using Questioning Strategies in their Classrooms by Isa Korkmaz.
• A Post Postmodern View of Art Education by Stuart Richmond.
• “I Just Don’t Have the Capability”: Examining the Impact of Declining Arts Education on Teacher Beliefs by Susanne Garvis.
• Peer Evaluation: Teachers Evaluating One Another for an Effective Practice by Vuyisile Msila.
• Analysis of French Culture Presented in Elementary College Texts: What do our Students Know after one Year? by Elizabeth Combier.
• Strategies to Ensure that No Motswana Female Leader “Starts from Behind” by Giving Young Batswana Girls a Head Start at Primary Schools by Mpho Pheko.
• A Study of Taiwanese University Students’ Use of English Complementation: English vs. Non-english Majors by Hsiao-hui Hsu.
• Engaging MBA Students in Problem Based Learning to Foster Self Directed Learning by Janet Chew.
• Propensity for Participatory Evaluation by Pernelle Smits, François Champagne and Régis Blais.
• Learning without Boundaries: To Voice Indigenous Children’s Experiences of Learning Places by Krister Hertting and Eva Alerby.
• The Effect of a Computerized Writing Program on the Quality of College Students’ English Compositions by Chi-Yen Chiu and Mei-ching Ho.
• Mere Mortals Creating Worlds: Low Threshold 3D Virtual Environments for Learning by Peter Robert Albion.
• Real World Problems in Developing a Critical Thinking Approach to Learning in Pharmacology by Roselyn Rose’Meyer and Christopher Rose’Meyer.
• Global Perspectives and Global Citizenship: Understanding the Views of our Learners by Chris Shiel.
• The Customisation of Perdisco e-Learning Resources to Enhance Student Learning in an Accounting Course in Various Locations Using Differing Modes of Learning by Susan Bolt and Siân Flynne.
• Educational Challenges for e-Learning in Higher Education in Bulgaria by Petar Halachev.
• Relation between Clear Aims and Teacher Satisfaction by Betina von Staa.
• Hearing Music Notation through Music Score Software: Effects on Students’ Music Reading and Writing by Jesús Tejada.